Chief of Staff to the CEO

Location: Remote in Canada, Germany, the UK, or the US. The role requires working across time zones, occasional work outside standard hours, and travel for Board meetings, leadership gatherings, and major events.

Starting annual salary: Germany €206,448.00–€232,253.22; UK £181,764.00–£204,483.81; Canada $356,400.00–$400,948.65; US $264,000.00–$296,999.00.

Company

hirify.global Foundation is a nonprofit building people-first, open, and trustworthy alternatives to extractive technology systems.

What you will do

• Act as the CEO’s strategic partner, internal proxy, and trusted extension of leadership.
• Translate the CEO’s priorities into clear strategic outcomes, ownership, decision points, and organizational alignment.
• Filter significant strategy shifts, material risks, budget decisions, and Board-level matters into decision-ready briefs with context, options, and recommendations.
• Enable the Executive Leadership Team to operate around shared priorities and resolve cross-functional issues requiring CEO-level alignment.
• Prepare the CEO for Board meetings, funder and partner conversations, speeches, and other public engagements.
• Align the Investment Committee and its technical and strategic advisors with the Foundation’s strategy and move decisions efficiently from evaluation to funding.

Requirements

• Significant, verifiable experience as a strategic partner at CEO or executive-team level, including leading high-stakes work and turning ambiguity into structure and action.
• Proven ability to drive complex, cross-functional priorities from idea to execution by defining outcomes, ownership, milestones, and decision points.
• Exceptional judgment and discretion when handling confidential information and complex executive dynamics.
• Ability to influence without formal authority, build trust at senior levels, and provide direct feedback with care.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication, including decision-ready briefs, recommendations, presentations, and executive communications.
• Strong analytical and strategic problem-solving skills, including framing questions, testing assumptions, and recommending practical paths forward.
• Disciplined prioritization and agility across long-term priorities and time-sensitive issues.
• Direct experience supporting Board governance, fundraising, or other high-stakes external relationships at executive level.
• Commitment to hirify.global Foundation’s mission and to building an open, accessible, and trustworthy internet; ability to work across time zones and occasionally outside standard hours.

Nice to have

• Experience working across multiple legal entities.
• Senior experience in nonprofit, philanthropic, technology, or public-interest organizations.
• Experience supporting or advising investment, grantmaking, or funding committees.

Culture & Benefits

• Work openly, document decisions, surface conflicts early, and provide direct, actionable input.
• Private medical insurance, extended sick leave, and a global employee assistance program.
• Retirement plan contributions and paid time off including 20 annual leave days, sick days, and a birthday day.
• Company holidays, end-of-year shutdown, wellness budget, and professional development budget.
• Top-up program for pregnancy and parental leave; the role has no direct reports and does not manage the CEO’s calendar or administrative support.